In a cultural milestone possibly relevant only to me, acclaimed movie critic Anthony Lane just reviewed Grand Theft Hamlet, a documentary shot completely in GTA Online, in The New Yorker. (Paywalled online only at the moment, alas, but I just blogged about the movie here.)
I'm fairly sure this is the first time The New Yorker has reviewed a machinima! The venerable magazine did review Life 2.0, the 2010 documentary about Second Life, but that only partly shot in SL. (I think roughly 30% of the footage is machinima.)
Anyway, read my Life 2.0 coverage here, and watch the Grand Theft Hamlet trailer below:
Wagner James Au / New World Notes 
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